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  • SSCB #20 Watercolor


    Julie Warner – https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com

    Welcome to a new challenge for Serendipity Stamps! The Serendipity Challenge this week is Watercolor!  

    While I love to water color, I also love to make water color backgrounds…just free form swaths of color…then stamp on top of them. I love the random patterns of color I get and how they look with the images on top. A lot of times when I’m making water color backgrounds, I’ll make an extra, or two, and stash them away. This is one of those extras. I don’t even remember when I did it. It’s basically just large bands in different colors. After I decided where I wanted the image and stamped it, and added some highlights with a white gel pen.

    Julie Warner – https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com

    The frame was die cut with a large oval then I used a Japanese screw punch with the smallest bit I have to punch the holes all around the edge. The greeting was stamped underneath to finish my 4.25 x 5.50 card.

    Thanks so much for stopping by and be sure to check out all of the Watercolored Wonders from the Serendipity Design Team!

    Jeanne Jachna
    Marybeth Lopez
    Miriam Napier
    Pauline Pollington
    Anya Schrier –not posting this time  😥
    Jenny Gropp
    Vickie Zimmer
    Julie Warner – you are here!
    Karen Amidon 

     

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    Supplies:

    Stamps: Serendipity Stamps – Vases, Thinking of You
    Paper: Neenah white, watercolor paper
    Ink:  Versafine onyx
    Accessories:  Peerless water colors, Tombow markers, white gel pen, Spellbinders lg oval die, Japanese screw punch w/ 1.5mm bit, black Permapaque marker

     


  • SSCB#19 Serendipity Stamps – Tri-Shutter Card

     

    Julie Warner – https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com

    Weekly-FavoriteWelcome to a new challenge for Serendipity Stamps! The Serendipity Challenge this week is a Tri-Shutter Card!  You can find all the details on how to play along with us at the Serendipity Stamps Challenge Blog. With each challenge we always have a gift certificate up for grabs to a random player. And this week’s sale will be free shipping on any US order of $10 or more… offer good Sept  11-18. I’m also adding this to the Splitcoast Ways to Use It Challenge (WT444)…use designer paper!
    For my Tri-Shutter card, I used this sweet Snowman w/ Birds image. After coloring him with Copics, I die cut him using my out of the box Nestie technique. I added a lt blue die cut layer then attached him to the front section of my tri-shutter card. The purple piece was die cut w/ a fancy snow border. I didn’t use other papers on the sections to the right of him, because I liked the way all the white space showed him off.

    Julie Warner – https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com
    I added narrow sections of different patterned papers on the open sections. On the far right right panel, I added a long pennant flag with the sentiment and the snowflake on top. I added a couple of the same snowflake on the panels facing the sentiment, but so sorry…I didn’t take a pic to show it!

    Julie Warner – https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com
    After finishing, I added just a little stickles to a few areas of the snowman. If you’d like the template for this Tri-Shutter card, it can be found HERE.  These are the Copics I used to color everything.

    Julie Warner – https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com
    Thanks so much for stopping by! Please be sure to stop by and leave some love on all the Serendipity Design Team posts.

    Jeanne Jachna
    Marybeth Lopez
    Miriam Napier
    Pauline Pollington
    Anya Schrier -not posting this time 🙁

    Jenny Gropp

    Vickie Zimmer

    Julie Warner – you are here!
    Karen Amidon 

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    Supplies:

    Stamps: Serendipity Stamps – Snowman with Birds, Small Snowflake, Baby It’s Cold Outside
    Paper: Bazzill white, purple, lt blue, dp (unknown, Cricut Christmas pad)
    Ink:  Memento tuxedo black, grape jelly
    Accessories:  Copic markers, stickles, Spellbinders labels 4 & gold labels 4 dies, Memory Box Frostyville border die, fishtail banner dies

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    Julie Warner - https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com

    CAS-Favorite

    On my Christmas card, I die cut the beautiful bird in white and traced around the die on red and fussy cut it to attach behind the white die cut version. The sentiment was stamped on white and I used a bracket border die to cut the bottom. I used another die from the border set to cut the red layer beneath it. A red snowflake and some red and clear crystals were added to finish my 5.50 x 4.25 card.

    Stamps: Serendipity Stamps – Peace on Earth, Small Snowflake
    Paper:  Neenah white, dk red
    Ink: Memento love letter
    Accessories:  Serendipity Bird die, Spellbinders bracket border dies, crystals

    Julie Warner - https://thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com

    Weekly-Favorite

    For my non-Christmas card, I went with a sympathy card. After stamping the sentiment on the lower section, I die cut the dove above it. I used some blue-green Copics to color the die cut bird then used  the ink spots image to add the dots on the bird and also on the light blue layer. The stamped die cut bird was then added back into the empty die cut space. The finished card is 4.25 x 5.50.

    Stamps: Serendipity Stamps – Ink Spots, Angels who Journey
    Paper:  Neenah white, lt blue
    Ink: Colorbox deep lagoon chalk ink
    Accessories:  Copic markers, Serendipity bird die

    Julie (you are here!)

    Vickie
    Anya
    Jeanne
    Jenny
    Miriam
    Marybeth

    Thanks so much for stopping by!

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